Your job interview is about to begin, but you know nothing about the position you're interviewing for! Luckily, you are not the only applicant in the waiting room, and you're a quick learner.
Scavenge the waiting room for clues! Ace the interview and land yourself a job! Use arrow keys or WASD to move and make selections.
Programmed in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 45 using pygame. Music created in MuseScore. Sound effects generated with SFXR.
This game really makes me feel the pressure of not being qualified. Just like taking a test without studying, it was hard to remember all of the different words being thrown around. I really like that they were generated each time, I played it through again and was delighted to see different words used. The humor was great, and having several different endings is neat. Some text spilled out of the box, but that can be easily fixed. Great work!
I had no idea what I was doing, and I loved it! Really captured the anxiety of going into something you're not prepared for. I couldn't figure out how to trigger the actual interview, though :( Music was amazing, too. Good job!
@toppervideogames Yeah, the spill-over only happens when certain words are used, so I didn't catch it in testing. I definitely should have decided on a max word length in advance.
@afroant I'm glad you enjoyed it! The receptionist will call you in for the interview automatically once you've gathered enough information, so you just need to keep talking to people to get more clues.
I think I found a bug about the stuff the company wants you be good at. People say you should have a favorite A, but when asked in the interview they ask for your favorite B.
It's hard to explain because the game changes what word means what at every playthrough, but what I want to say is that the words are different.
@avsc There was another clue in the waiting room about recruiters looking for applicants that use B, which is what the interview question was getting at. I can see the confusion though, "B of choice" does sound like it could mean "favorite A", I should try to make a clearer distinction.
Very 'Canon in D' vibes from the music, fits the waiting room atmosphere nicely.